Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, April 8, 1921, Page 1

GRAVE CREEK ROAD ASSURED ° MONEY WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE AND LONG NEEDED ROAD BUILT The much talked of Grave Creek road, between Cottonwood and Grave Creek will soon be one of reality, as the $20,000 ap- propriation given by the sixteen- | th session of the state legislature! will soon be available and if the money is properly spent, accord- ing to men who have had ex- perience in road _ building one may go from Cottonwood to Grave Creek in an automobile, and upon a road with a splendid grade. House bill No. 313, by commit- tee on roads, bridges and ferries, which was signed by the gover- nor and is now a law specifically sets aside $20,000 for this road. House bil! No. 313 contains six sections, each one referring to @arions road projects in the state. Section 5, the one which makes an appropriation for the above named road reads as fol- lows: Section.5. The Commissioner of Public Works is hereby auth- orized to cause to be paid over the County Commissioners of Idaho County, out of any money available in the State Highway Fund, the sum of $20,000, to he used in the construction of the Rocky Canyon road leading from Grave Creek canyon towards Cottonwood, Idaho. M. M. Belknap recently wrote a letter to the Department of Public Works asking when and how this money will be available. The following is the reply receiv- ed by Mr. Belknap: STATE OF IDAHO Department of Public Works Boise, April Ist, 192.1 Mr. M. M. Belknap, Cottonwood, Idaho. Dear Mr. Belknap: Your letter of March 22nd, addressed to Mr. Wm. J. Hall, has been referred to me for reply owing to the absence of the Com- missioner from the City. It is a matter of fact that $20,- 000 was appropriated by H. B. No. 313 for the construction of the Rocky Canyon road leading out of the Grave Creek Canyon towards Cottonwood, Idaho, and that the provisions of this bill were that the Commissioner of Public Works is authorized to cause to be paid over to the coun- ty Commissioner of Idaho county out of any money available in the State Highway Fund, the sum of $20,000, to be used in that construction. This appropriation has already been covered by minutes of the Commissioner’s but doubtless he will require certain resolutions from the County Commiissioners before this money is made pay- able to them, and we therefore are forwarding your letter to- gether with a copy of this to the Commissioner, requesting that he reply directly to you if he so. sees fit, giving the information which you wish in the matter. Yours very truly, Bureau of Highways, By H. W. Gregory, Office Engineer. RED CROSS DONATES. The following telegram was received by H. T. Agnew from Donald A. Callahan, state chair- man for the Irish relief fund which is self explanatory: American Committee for relief in Ireland have received donation One Hundred Thousand Dollars from American Red Cross for distribution of relief in Ireland, it is agreed that all State and local Chairman will hereafter re- frain from soliciting funds from the Red Cross Chapters, and that all donations so far received | from them shall be returned. See that this is given proper publicity in local paper. DONALD A. CALLAHAN, State Chairman. If you want to vote at the com- | ing city election you must registered. Do it now. |attorney general, for NEW STANDARD. | The standard weight of a quar) ter of a barrel of flour in Idaho will be 49 pounds after May 8. Milling companies having sacks f flour on hand weighing 48 pounds may sell them after May 3, when the 49-pound sack law | goes into effect, provided they are marked as weighing 48) pounds and not a quarter of a} barrel. This opinion was writ-| ten Tuesday by Roy L. Black,) an Idaho! milling company which request- ed information concerning the, disposition of 48-pound sacks on hand. | Senate bill No. 102 amends | section 2568 of the Compiled Statutes to read the weight of a quarter of a barrel of flour shall be 49 pounds; this was done in| order to keep the standard, weight of a barrel at 196 pounds. In answering the query of the milling company the attorney | general said: | “As to those sacks which you have on hand containing 48) pounds or will have on hand | when the law goes into effect, | will say that by special contract or agreement “made you may still sell those sacks without change. They must however, | be stamped as 48 pounds and| could not be stamped as quarter | barrel sacks. Section 2568 as| ‘amended provides for that when | they are sold ‘and no special con- tract or agreement is made to the contrary.’ ” TO SHAKE POLITICAL TREE. | The republican clans in Idaho | are collecting under the federal | plum tree, for it is soon to be| shaken and when it is there will | fall some exceptionally district | attorneyship, a United States marshalship, an internal revenue collectorship, a prohibition dir-| Cottonwood. ectorship and an interstate com- | merce commission membership. At the April session of congress the fruit harvest will take place|™meeting Monday evening took and the plums will then, be dis- | United States Senst- or W. E. Borah, United States tributed. CITY BUYS BALL GROUNDS WILL HAVE A PERMANENT BALL DIAMOND—FOUR ACRES IN TRACT At a special meeting held by the city council in their council chambers Wednesday evening, the council by a unanimous vote authorized the purchase of four acres of land from R. S. Curless near the Frank Terhaar home, the purchase price being $125 an acre to be used for a perman- | ent play ground by the city of The council also authorized a week's work done at | the expense of the city. The) city fathers at their regular} up the matter of purchasing the | tract but tabled the matter until | |members of the council could for Senator Gooding, Congressmen French and Smith, National Committeeman Hart, State Chairman John Hart and other party leaders who are taken into their confidence, will act as the dispensers. UNSUAL EXPERIENCE. C. J. Johnson had an unsual experience Tuesday evening, when on yawning to give tem- porary relief to the tired feeling creeping over him, his jaw be- came set and his mouth refused to close. No effort of his own could close it, so a physician was called and later it was necessary for both Drs. Taylor and Bryan to get on the job, administer chloroform, and work nearly an hour before they could get the jaw back into place. C. J. was out the following day, but he still has a pretty sore jaw and will henceforth think twice before he opens his mouth very wide again —Kamiah Progress. TO THE 18TH AMMENDMENT My country, 'tis of thee, Land of grape juice and tea, Of thee I sing. Land where we all have tried To break the law and lied, From every mountain side The bootlegs spring. My native country thee Land of the home brewerie, Thy brew I love; I love thy booze and thrills And they illicit stills; The moonshine runs in rills From the above. —Moscow Mirror. DANCE BIG SUCCESS. The dance given by the Ameri- can Legion boys at the Orpheum Wednesday evening was a grand success in every way. The at- tendance was large, exceptionally the canteen lunch deli-| /aw, enacted by the recent leg- |themselves personally investi- rate the tract. A petition bear- | ing the signatures of many tax {payers in Cottonwood was pre- sented to the council Monday | evening asking them to purchase | the site. | A permanent base ball park jand play ground has been under |discussion for some time. In | former years all work and money expended on undertakings of this kind has been practically thrown away on account of the grounds always having been leased and consequently the work had to be done over again | when new grounds were leased. | The tract purchased by the | city is considered to be an ideal base ball ground having excep- tionally good water drainage. | All work upon the grounds will be done with the idea of perma-| nency and it is hoped that within | afew years Cottonwood will) have as good a diamond as is to| | be found on the prairie. | ATTEND BALL MEETING. George Lange and N. A. Lith- ‘erland, are the two official re- presentatives of the Cottonwood base ball club who will attend a meeting at Grangeville Satur- day evening, which has for its) purpose the idea of organizing a} |prairie league. It is expected | that every town on the prairie as | well as Kamiah and Kooskia will |be represented at the meeting. | Strong opposition it appears will jhe made against any outside | players, or salaried men and up- }on this one question seems to | hang the question, league or no | league. our motto. REGISTER NOW. The new municipal election COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921 | exists.’ lage of All home boys, that’s | ¢ PREDICTS NORMAL TIMES. | According to a recent letter written by Governor Davis, he! helieves business conditions will | soon be normal. His letter, reads as follows: “T believe the readjustment of | business is quietly but sutely | taking place. Not many months, pass before there will be a! natural and normal functioning | of business. There should have) j;and Wilson—in a consolidated | | earnings last year. | ment included leather companies BIG FELLOWS ALSO LOST. In its March report of general business conditions, The Nation- al City Bank of New York, our largest banking institution, points out a few of the many great business concerns that sus- tained losses reaching into the | millions of dollars in 1920, as a |result of. the genera slump in prices. From this report we quote the following: “With an aggregate capital in vestment of $600,000,000 and aggregate sales of about $3,000,- 000, the five leading companies of the meat packing industry— Armour, Swift, Morris, Cudahy statement would show no net! Losses ex- ceeded profits, and if the state- affiliated with them the showing would be much worse. The Armour Leather Co. had a net loss for the year ended October | 31, 1920, of $4,318,653. “The American Cotton Oil Co., | for the year ended August 81, | 1920, showed a loss of $8,611,-| 560, against a profit in the pre- vious year of $422, 814. “In mentioning the packing) companies we ought not to over-| look the Equity Cooperative | ver gathered Packing Co. of Fargo, N. Dak., which avowed purpose of keeping the profits of the packing business NEWS AROUND THE STATE {tems of Interest From Various Sections Reproduced for Ben- efit of Our Readers. James Tipton one of the oldest settlers in Idaho county away at his home in Whitebird last Saturday. Another story is to be added to the Bollinger Hotel at Lewis- ton making the hotel a four story structure. Prof. Fred Rantz, principal of the Nezperce school was selected by the Nezperce school board as their superintendent for the year 1921-2. Vigorous protest will be made by the chambers of commerce of Moscow and Lewiston over the proposed increase in passenger fares between Spokane and Lewiston. One of the largest crowds that in Moscow was present at the inauguration of was promoted for the, D¥. A. H. Upham as president of the University of Idaho. 62 col- leges and universities being re- been a decided retrenchment and | 2t home and among the farmers, | Presented. letting up of activity. This no business man denies. It was neces: to the health of in-) dustry and finance, those correl- | ated functions, that they be cleared of excessive credits and spending. We may now all of us proceed in the natural order “¢ | for the era of prosperity which is before us. It has ever been true that following a war great) depression prevails during the adjustment period, but immedi-| ately following them the great- est prosperity and development NOTICE OF VILLAGE ELECTION Notice is hereby given that an election will be held in the Vil- Cottonwood, Idaho, on Tuesday, April 26, 1921, for the purpose of electing five trustees to serve for a term of two years, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Said elec- tion will be held in the I. O. O. F. Hall in Cottonwood, Idaho, and the polls will be open from the hour of 9:00 A. M. to the hour of 7:00 P. M. of said day. Only duly qualified electors who are registered with the Vil- lage Registrar will be allowed to vote at said election. Electors may register at any time during office-hours from date of this notice til! 9:00 o’clock P. M. of April 23, 1921, at the office of the Village Clerk, M. M. Belknap at the Cottonwood State Bank. Dated this 4th day of April, 1921. By order of the Board of Trustees, Village of Cottonwood, Idaho. M. M. BELKNAP, Village Clerk. 15-3 The city clerk will register you | for the coming election. | Call for Mass Meeting to Nomin- ate Village Trustees. | A mass meeting is hereby called to meet at the Orpheum in Cottonwood, Idaho, on April | 12th, 1921, at the hour 8:00 P. M. for the purpose of nominating | five persons as candidates for | the office of Village Trustees to |be voted upon at the Village | Election to be held April 26, 1921 All certificates of nomination must be filed with the Village Clerk not less than twelve days before the date of election. S. J. PETERSON, Chairman | Board of Trustees. | cious, the music par excellent, |islature, makes it mandatory| HOLD BACK ON WALKS. the receipts $160. was furnished by Mann Bros. and Kelsey of Lewiston. COURT CONVENES. The spring term of the Tenth The music| that all persons who expect to | vote at |election, April 26, be registered | |anew. .M. M. Belknap, city clerk, lis registrar. Judicial District for Idaho coun-| COMMISSIONERS MEET. ty will Monday, Scales, convene presiding. cases and 75 civil cases. at Grangeville | April 18 with Judge | meet in vegular quarterly session | The court at Grangeville Monday. docket consists of seven criminal two weeks will be required by The county commissioners will Some | the county fathers to dispose of The spring term was set for | the business coming before them be | the 11th but was potsponed. at the regular session. the forthcoming city | The present city council, at its |meeting held in the council chambers Wednesday evening | decided to have no more new its present reign. The present members of the council were al- so of the opinion that the ques- tion of finishing the walks now | partly under construction should | be left to the new council which will be elected Apri 26 and who take the oath of office the first Monday in May. Stock to the amount of $2,250,-| 00 was disposed of, Approximately 100,000 young and about | trees, mainly for shade and orna- $600,000 of the proceeds absorb-| mental purposes, will be sent to ed by the promoters. The com-| people of the state this year pany, however, got into business | from the university, Dean F. G. in time to lose, it about $800,000 of what was left. “We referred two months ago| is reported | Miller, head of the school of forestry, estimated today. The new administration build- to the heavy lossses that dealers | ing at the Lewiston State Nor- were taking upon butter in stor- | age. The situation not only has shown no improvement, but has grown much worse. The bulk of the winter butter supply went into storage at about 55 cents per pound, and has been coming out all the way down to | 35 cents, from which there has | been a recovery of 7 or 8 cents. Eggs have gone in the same way, falling from 70 cents to 35, from which there has been a recovery of 4 or 5 cents. lars have been lost by dealers in butter and eggs, the mild winter being an important factor in the vesult. No body could foresee, when butter and eggs were stor- ed eight or ten months ago, that cows would give milk and hens lay eggs at the rate they have kept it up all winter. “The Quaker Oats Co., which in 1919 had net profits of $2,679, 394, reports for 1920 a net loss on operations and depreciation of inventory of $5,824,925. “The Central Leather Co., one of the big leather companies, which began the year 1912 with assets of $146,855,102, closed the year with net loss on operations and depreciation of $22,428,214, “Montgomery, Ward & Co. of Yhicago, one of the oldest and best known of the mail order houses, which made $4,194,170 in 1919, sold $101,000,000 worth of goods in 1920 and closed its books for the year with a net loss of $7,855,278.” TO FENCE CEMETERY. Members of the local order of Knights of Pythias have taken steps to assist in improving the local cemetery, a committee from the Knights of Pythias anda committee from the Cemetery Association met with a like com- mittee from the Village Council Millions of dol-| ;mal school, costing $150,000 in- | dependent of furnishings, will be |completed and utilized for the closing exercises of the present session of the institution in June. | The Northern Idaho News, {owned by the Bonner Publishing |company, was turned over to | Charles E. Hicks on a four-year |lease. Mr. Hicks goes te Sand- | point from Moscow, but he has |also been a publisher of weekly | papers in Oregon. | The home of Probate Judge | Ellis and its entire contents was | destroyed by fire at Nezperce. | No one had been in the house for | three days, the family having | been in the country. According | to reports the fire started from | some mysterious source and also | appears to be spite work. | Blowing the entire top and | back of his head off with a soft- | nozed Savage bullet fired from a | 38-caliber Winchester rifle, Ches |ter Baker, age 24, committed | suicide at the home of his cousin | Isham Morgan, a bachelor farm- er on Texas Ridge six miles from | Kendrick, Sunday evening. | A telegram was dispatched to Tex Rickard at New York City Saturday by J. H. Sexsmith, | wealthy Spokane lumberman, and owner of the Alan racetract near Coeur’dAlene in northern Idaho, offering to outbid by | $50,000 any offer that may be | received for the Dempsey enter championship fight. The body of Corporal Orville Martin arrived in Lewiston Sat- urday from France. Corporal Martin, son of E. H. Martin of Winchester, was a member of battery D, Sixth field artillery, and died July 28, 1918, from wounds received in action. The funeral was held at Lewiston and it was decided by these com-| from the Vassar chapel. mittees to purchase an ornamen-| An effort to have the license tal fence and have it installed. The committees will meet to practice medicine in Idaho is- sued to Dr. C. K. Henkle of Troy, again Saturday evening and com’ canceled for “unprofessional and plete their plans. The public | dishonorable conduct” is will receive further information; made by John Nisbet, prosecut~ through the Chronicle near future. in the ing attorney of Latah county, | according to word received from Boise, where the papers have Register if you want to vote at | been filed with the secretary of the city election. KILL MAMMOTH BEEF. Simon Bros. Monday of this week killed a four year old heifer cement walks constructed under that weighed 1770 pounds A they foot, the largest animal state. | An architect from Marquette, Michigan, has been at Sandpoint for several days loading 14 car- loads of selected spruce, larch and black pine logs for shipment to a summer resort in Michigan have ever killed since being en-' where a New York banker will gaged in the butcher business in Cottonwood, which dates back to a quarter of a century. The was bought from G. P.| because animal Schmidt and had been fed al winter. The animal dressed out | grained, firmest and stra | better than the average. build a half million dollar log cabin. The architect came to the Inland Empire for the material in this section, as he l says, “can be found the a trees in the entire United